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Subject:
Severe storms hit here
Date:
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:16:02 -0500
From:
"Austin C. Phelps" <acp{at}cul.net>
To:
j{at}weatherwatchers.org
Last night a strong front moved through Central Florida. So far the
death
toll is 43 people. Strong tornados hit cities of Winter Garden (Orange
County - 1), Kissimmee (Osocola County - 27), Seminole County - 13, and
Volusia County - 2. This is the confirmed death toll as of this moment.
So far reports are coming in - but some strange stories. The tornados
that
stuck Volusia County hit a trailer park and lifted up the trailers -
pulling the victims out and dropping them and their trailers in the St.
Johns River. So far only one person is missing.
The storms struck between 11 and 3 - a time which most people were
sleeping. Thus increasing death toll. Here at the station weather was
not
severe.
Attached is a radar loop that I managed capture.
Local Press of the severe weather.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/0223storm3.htm
More stuff when it comes in and when I get off from work.
Austin
Orlando